View Full Version : Old Liverpool School Buildings


Paul D
06-25-2006, 01:27 PM
http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/7654/scholl23tr.jpg


http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/2469/school14eg.jpg

This is the oldest elementary school in Lancashire which is obviously now Merseyside,it's by Camp Hill.

Kev
06-25-2006, 01:31 PM
http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/7654/scholl23tr.jpg


http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/2469/school14eg.jpg

This is the oldest elementary school in Lancashire which is obviously now Merseyside,it's by Camp Hill.

Spot on :PDT_Piratz_26:, Woolton :celb (23):

Max
06-25-2006, 02:20 PM
I'll have to do another bike ride up to Woolton. Best place in Liverpool to go around.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

I mostly just go to the Tesco and back since theirs barely any lines lol.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Most of them go to the Allerton one.

Kev
10-28-2006, 06:32 AM
Smithdown Primary School - The old Chatsworth Board

School

http://www.smithdownprimaryschool.com/images/smithdownprimaryschool%20%281%29.jpg

http://www.smithdownprimaryschool.com/images/s

mithdownprimaryschool%20%2811%29.jpg

http://www.smithdownprimaryschool.com/old%20pics/b23.jpg

Beaufort Street Board

School

http://static.flickr.com/88/229065355_d61ac3252a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229065355/)

http://static.flickr.com/81/229065436_27317d7096.jpg (http://www.f

lickr.com/photos/ijob/229065436/)

Max
10-28-2006, 11:37 AM
Whats the building behind the Beaufort street one?

PhilipG
10-28-2006, 11:57 AM
Whats the building behind the Beaufort street

one?

Not sure if you mean what sort of building or the name, but it's a block of flats near Park Street - don't know what it was called.

Waterways
10-28-2006, 12:15 PM
Whats the building behind the Beaufort street

one?

That is Chatsworth St and that is Entwistle Heights, a nice building, which has been blown down.

Waterways
10-28-2006, 12:16 PM
Not sure if you mean what sort of building or

the name, but it's a block of flats near Park Street - don't know what it was called.

The block near Park St, on Mill St, is Mill View.

twiz
10-28-2006, 04:19 PM
That is Chatsworth St and that is

Entwistle Heights, a nice building, which has been blown down.

Hmm, nice? Was it a council tower? If so then I'm sure the occupants views

differed, did you live there? I'd actually love for all or most of the tower blocks around merseyside to still be around because they add to the skyline and

make a city look bigger than it really is. But they're no good for living in, no community, hallways/stairs/lifts stink of piss, half filled with

smackheads. Thats my experience of one tower block in Everton but I'm quite sure it was consistent throughout the city.

shytalk
10-28-2006, 04:53 PM
You describe these schools as boarding schools. The difference between

Board scools and boaeding schools is that pupils live on the premises in boarding schools. Board schools they did not live in, they were school run by the

school board or education authority, other schools were contolled by churches.

Kev
10-28-2006, 04:57 PM
You describe these schools as boarding schools. The difference between Board scools and boaeding

schools is that pupils live on the premises in boarding schools. Board schools they did not live in, they were school run by the school board or education

authority, other schools were contolled by churches.

Yes, there is a difference, thanks for the heads up :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

PhilipG
10-28-2006, 05:05 PM
Hmm, nice? Was it a

council tower? If so then I'm sure the occupants views differed, did you live there? I'd actually love for all or most of the tower blocks around

merseyside to still be around because they add to the skyline and make a city look bigger than it really is. But they're no good for living in, no

community, hallways/stairs/lifts stink of piss, half filled with smackheads. Thats my experience of one tower block in Everton but I'm quite sure it was

consistent throughout the city.


All the tower blocks of the 1960s were owned by the Council.
I was once offered a flat in one in

Kirkby, but didn't take it, & I've never lived in one.
The B & W photo is Chatsworth Street (I got it wrong) and that is Entwistle Heights.
Here it

is in 1986, just before it was demolished.

I know this thread is about schools.
I've just looked, and have a few photos of demolished schools

which I'll post.

bobbymac
10-28-2006, 05:49 PM
Hi M8, do you have one of Roscoe

Garsefield Rd? I believe it's now an old folks home. It's near Broadway.:celb (6):

shytalk
10-28-2006, 05:52 PM
If anyone has a picture of Gateacre village church school I would appreciate it. I don't think it is

used as a school anymore.

PhilipG
10-28-2006, 06:10 PM
If anyone has a picture of Gateacre village church school I would appreciate it. I don't think it is used as a school

anymore.

Is this it?
I did a Google search for gateacre school (2 separate words).
I don't know Gateacre - I don't think they'd let

me in!
http://static.flickr.com/43/111299737_249a29ad3d.jpg

Kev
10-28-2006, 06:18 PM
Is this it?
I did a

Google search for gateacre school (2 separate words).
I don't know Gateacre - I don't think they'd let me in!


http://static.flickr.com/43/111299737_249a29ad3d.jpg


That's St Stephen's Court, Halewood Road, formerly Gateacre Church of

England School.

snappel
10-28-2006, 06:31 PM
There's also the

old Pleasant Street Board School behind Mount Pleasant, which is currently being converted into

flats...

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/pleasant/Dscf7277.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/plea

sant/Dscf7256.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/pleasant/Dscf7259.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/imag

es/pleasant/Dscf7252.jpg

Kev
10-28-2006, 06:34 PM
I've always wanted to get inside that Snappel, apparently, the new school opposite are trying to salvage the original sign for their new building which

would be nice.

Do u know what has happened to paperwork etc? It's Liverpool's oldest school building isn't it?

snappel
10-28-2006, 06:41 PM
When I went there, the only paperwork were some soggy textbooks in the yard, which I assume the builders binned. I didn't see anything there

were salvaging. It was night time when I actually went inside, and it was a bit bare and stripped out, nothing much of interest there.

I was hoping

the sign would stay on the building after renovation as it would give it a bit of character. But if it's being taken down I hope it gets saved - would be

criminal to destroy it.

shytalk
10-28-2006, 08:12 PM
Thanks for the school pic. that was my first school.
Kev. The oldest

school building in Liverpool is in School lane Woolton, it juts out into the road, it is a tiny building and was closed up for years, it must be famous

because I had tourists ask me about it when I was on the cabs.
I don't know if anything has been done with it in the 25 years since I left, it would be a

shame if it was wasted,probably one of the few remaining examples of a one room school.

PhilipG
10-28-2006, 08:49 PM
Pleasant Street School opened in 1819

and is the oldest in the City Centre.
It's listed, and I assume the name is part of the criteria (but I could be wrong).
Anyway, the building

wouldn't look right without it.

sweetpatooti
10-28-2006, 09:46 PM
I don't know if anything has been done with it in the 25 years since I left,

it would be a shame if it was wasted,probably one of the few remaining examples of a one room school.


It's a private day nursery now (for

pre-school children)

Waterways
10-28-2006, 10:16 PM
Hmm, nice? Was it a council tower?


Yes.


If so then I'm sure the occupants views

differed,


Why? Mosty liked it. All it needed was a consierge, like in France and Spain.


did you live there? I'd

actually love for all or most of the tower blocks around merseyside to still be around because they add to the skyline and make a city look bigger than it

really is. But they're no good for living in,


The flats were brilliant for living in. Panoramic views, floor to ceiling wondows. light,

airy, spaceous, etc.


no community, hallways/stairs/lifts stink of piss,


Because of no consierge


half

filled with smackheads. Thats my experience of one tower block in Everton but I'm quite sure it was consistent throughout the city.

Like hell

it was!!! Go to those around Sefton Park. If the tower blocks were properly managed in day to day running and dopes were prevented from walking in off the

street they are superb. And they put the wrong people in them. Those who misbehaved should have been evicted.

Max
10-29-2006, 12:43 AM
I used to go to the old Pleasant Street

building.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

We were always allowed packet of crisps at first break time.:PDT_Piratz_26:

lindylou
10-31-2006, 07:52 PM
I used to

go to Entwistle Heights. :)

I visited a friend there for many years.
The flats were very dismal towards the end - the corridors and lifts were

filthy and stunk of wee !
I remember one of the floors was completely burned out - it may have been the 4th or 5th floor, but I remember getting out of

the lift on the wrong floor one time and stepping out into pitch blackness .. and the wind was howling down the corridor :shock: - scary !
I also

remember that quite often the lifts would get stuck or not be working at all. The entrance foyer was like the pits !! full of litter and the wall tiles

broken and dirty. Quite an intimidating place actually.
There was some sense of community remaining though .. my friend had lived there for many years

and knew lots of neighbours in there, they looked out for one another and there was always someone to talk to. They would pop in for a coffee or to see if

you needed anything from the shop. There was a little community hall on the ground floor at one time. They'd have meetings or a game of Bingo and suchlike.


It's a shame that a lot of 'undesirable' types were moved into the vacant flats and ruined the place. It ended up were kids would run in off the

street and vandalise the place.

snappel
11-01-2006, 12:01 PM
Ok, I'm trying to find out a little more history on the Pleasant Street Board School

for my exploration website. Does anyone have any information/memories of the place they wouldn't mind me quoting?

Thanks.

mauricech
01-26-2007, 02:21 PM
Wavertree CE School was built in 1867 and is still in use. It was formerly Trinity District School. As the school is 140 years old this year we are trying to collect together any photos or memories that people may have of the school in the past.

marky
05-08-2007, 10:50 AM
Wellington Road. I never noticed until recently that it had been alight...I've been told it was set on fire a couple of weeks ago. Best get snapping before the arsonists return (as they always do)

Ged
05-08-2007, 11:23 AM
This school, together with St. John's, Fountains Road, Kirkdale and Bishop Goss, Grosvenor Street were built around the same time, same red brickwork and a playground on the roof as well as the street level one etc.

PhilipG
05-08-2007, 11:28 AM
I was told that Wellington Road School was just ready for opening when the First World War broke out, so it was first used as a Military Hospital.
Mrs Roberts, who was the School Secretary there in the 1960s told me, but I've never seen it written anywhere. (Apart from toxteth.net and they got the info from me. Like other pieces on there, the one about the school comes from about 3 different people. Only the first 2 paragraphs are mine).
http://www.toxteth.net/places/liverpool/institutions/schools/wellington%20road%20school.htm

marky
05-09-2007, 12:57 PM
Wellington Road: It's been on fire again, but luckily the Fire Station is just around the corner. I noticed some workmen and some large containers at the rear (Harlow Street side), so maybe something is going to happen to this building.
Trivia: The Childrens TV drama 'Rocky O'Rourke' (1976) filmed a scene inside the school hall (the series was filmed around Liverpool)

stan
05-09-2007, 01:17 PM
There's also the old Pleasant Street Board School behind Mount Pleasant, which is currently being converted into flats...

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/pleasant/Dscf7277.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/pleasant/Dscf7256.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/pleasant/Dscf7259.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/pleasant/Dscf7252.jpg


Wasn't that the old joinery workshops for the Community college?

verdi
05-09-2007, 02:05 PM
Wellington road, I'd heard it was a hospital.I think there was something on the Long long trail site.? I have a flyer some where showing it is getting converted into,(wait for it) LUXURY FLATS:PDT_Piratz_26: . I would try to post it but I am a cave man with a pc??And can't find the flyer. I went there in me school days. a good solid building for now!!

AK1
05-09-2007, 07:23 PM
I haven't got any pics of this school which I used to go to. It was demolished a couple of years ago after a fire. Anyone got any pics? It was a great building which some people wanted listing. (It was next to Lister Drive Library)

TerryB
05-13-2007, 02:43 AM
That is Chatsworth St and that is Entwistle Heights, a nice building, which has been blown down.

It isn't. Those flats are on Mill St which is behind Beaufort St. Entwistle was further across and up parly.

Sloyne
05-13-2007, 02:53 AM
This interesting school, still in use, is in Upper Hampton St, Princes Park. This is my wifes alma mater, she holds fond memories of the place. Her home, when she attended the school, is still standing at 138 Upper Parliament Street.

marky
06-09-2007, 01:12 AM
Wellington Road School...the lower building (former infants) was demolished this week.

taffy
06-20-2007, 06:25 PM
St John's National School now the church hall.

taffy
07-11-2007, 12:10 AM
Interesting old Church of England school building in West Derby, Liverpool. It's still in use with modern buildings at the rear suitably blended in using sandstone exteriors.